Word: strenuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...initial cross country meeting yesterday afternoon called forth 27 aspirants from the class of 1936. More candidates are expected to report within the next few days. The harriers will not have strenuous workouts until Thursday, when all physical examinations will have been completed. The date of the opening meet against Holy Cross has been advanced to October 8, Mikkola states...
...about Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research work, he thinks his most...
...hear the soft-speaking Secretary. It was also found that the President's voice did not carry well to Paris so a telephone girl was brought in to do his talking for him. Once the President asked the 76-year-old Secretary if he were exhausted by his strenuous diplomatic activities. Replied Mr. Mellon: "No, I find all this rather good...
Since prizefighting has been enjoying a private and acute depression of its own, strenuous means of ballyhoo were required for the meeting of World's Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, German printer, and William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling of Georgia. Stribling, an able if eccentric aviator, borrowed a plane from Cleveland airport and flew it 90 miles from his training camp at Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters assigned...
...excitement. Bidding against him for the Spanish telephone system were Ericsson Co. of Sweden and Siemens & Halske of Germany. Col. Behn cabled for a corps of U. S. engineers, accountants and typists, shut his troops in a hotel suite, sat up many a night writing newly modified contracts. After strenuous haggling that lasted nearly a year. Col. Behn obtained ex-King Alfonso's then valuable signature, and, consequently, a potent toehold on the Continent...